Yesterday we met with Yang ShanYou, the director of the John Rabe Memorial Hall and Nanjing University Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. Links to more pics here: John Rabe Memorial Hall
I first described the centre in October 2006 when we were in Nanjing showing friends the city. A Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Nanjing!! I don't think I can better what I wrote then:
Remember Oscar Schindler? He rather defied the popular image of the Nazi by the way he saved so many Jews during the second world war. Well China has its own story of a "good Nazi". In this case its John Rabe, an employee of the German Siemens electrical goods company, who served his company here in China. He was in Nanjing during 1937-38 during the 6 week period when the Japanese slaughtered some 300,000 Chinese men, and raped at least 80,000 Chinese women, the event known as the Nanking Massacre often and often popularly known as the "The Rape of Nanking" after the title of the book by Iris Chang.
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